POPULATION GEOGRAPHY MIDTERM
STUDY QUESTIONS/TOPICS

• What are the components of Demographic Change?
• What is the difference between Fertility and Fecundity?
• What major events dramatically changed World Population growth?
• How do we measure -- Birth Rates? Death Rates? Natural Increase?
• What numbers are considered High? Low?
• How do world regions differ -- is there a pattern?
• What is the concept of "desired family size" and how is it relevant to birth rates?
• Which parts of the world are growing rapidly?  Growing slowly? Hardly growing at all?
• Is population growth related to economic development?  How?
• What is the Demographic Transition model? What are the stages?
• What determines the shape of a Population Pyramid?
• How is a region's Age-Sex Structure related to the Demographic Transition?
• What is the role of birth rates?
• YOUR COUNTRY:
• How does it compare to stages of the Demographic Transition?
• What are the population "issues" most pressing today?

• Who was Thomas Malthus? What did he have to say?
• Who are his critics (past and present)?
• What are the "Limits to Growth?"
• How do geographers measure Population Density?

• What is Forced Migration vs Voluntary Moves?
• What are the major "reasons to move?"
• What are Push/Pull Factors?
• What is the difference between Migration and Residential Mobility?
• Why is migration so important in industrialized societies?
• What are migration streams?
• YOUR COUNTRY:
• Did significant numbers of people come to the US?  When?
• Is migration a big factor in the population changes today?  How?
• YOUR STATE:
• How does Your State compare to National Averages?
• Is it growing?
• Where do people come from that move to your state?
• If they leave, where do they go?

• The Decennial Census
• Who do we count?  Why?
• Why every ten (10) years?
• What is "Redistricting" and why was there a ballot measure about it?
• What characteristics are only found on the "Sample Questions?"